Need for Funding

Spending Breakdown

Cents to the Cause

For a dollar donated, cents funding the cause after fundraising and admin costs, excluding surplus.

Full-time staff #120

Avg. Compensation $42,608

Top 10 Staff Salary Range

$350k +

0

$300k - $350k

0

$250k - $300k

0

$200k - $250k

0

$160k - $200k

0

$120k - $160k

0

$80k - $120k

1

$40k - $80k

9

< $40k

0

Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2016

About Wesley Urban Ministries:

Established in the basement of Wesley United Church in 1955, Wesley Urban Ministries has over 30 programs in 9 locations to combat poverty in Hamilton, Halton, and Brantford. Its services span across 3 client segments and services: children, youth and family; housing and homelessness; and neighbourhood and newcomer.

Children, youth, and family services are targeted towards neighbourhoods that would not otherwise have access to support services. They include prenatal and parental support, after-school programs focused on learning and recreation, and other learning initiatives. In F2016, 138,189 hot meals were served to children, adults, and seniors. Summer programs had 280 children in attendance, while after-school programs had 20,269 visits over the course of the school year. Wesley Urban Ministries’ employment services helped to employ 145 youth and adults in F2016.

Neighbourhood and newcomer services include the Syrian Refugee program, which was introduced in F2015. As of February 2017, Wesley Urban Ministries’ Syrian Refugee Fund has been distributed to refugees to pay for programs in sponsorship (24% of fund distributions), kids’ activities (22%), employment training and support (16%), food and health (15%), furniture (12%), and interpretation (10%). Between December 2015 and December 2016, 1338 Syrian refugees arrived, of which 95% secured permanent family physicians and 99% feel safe in their new community. Wesley Urban Ministries helped 900 refugees move into permanent housing in F2016.

Financial Review:

Wesley Urban Ministries is a medium-sized charity with $2.7m in donations and special events fundraising in F2017. Most of the charity’s funding comes from government sources, accounting for 74% of revenue in F2017. Administrative costs were 1% of revenues and fundraising costs were 9% of donations. For every $1 donated, 90 cents went to the cause, falling within Charity Intelligence’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $2.4m include $28k of donor-endowed funds. As such, Wesley Urban Ministries can cover 18%, or just over 2 months, of annual programs and grants.

This charity report is an update that is currently being reviewed by Wesley Urban Ministries. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on July 11, 2017 by Juliana Badovinac.

Financial Ratios

Fiscal year ending March

2017

2016

2015

Administrative costs as % of revenues

1.1%

3.0%

2.6%

Fundraising costs as % of donations

8.5%

12.7%

23.1%

Program cost coverage (%)

18.4%

34.8%

22.8%

Summary Financial Statements

All figures in $000s

2017

2016

2015

Donations

2,496

1,659

829

Goods in kind

404

324

374

Government funding

10,131

9,643

6,900

Fees for service

456

276

170

Business activities (net)

0

3

27

Special events

169

195

221

Investment income

109

65

57

Total revenues

13,765

12,165

8,579

Program costs

13,036

11,079

8,335

Grants

4

6

7

Administrative costs

146

358

222

Fundraising costs

227

236

243

Other costs

29

31

13

Cash flow from operations

323

455

(242)

Funding reserves

2,398

3,856

1,899

Note: Wesley Urban Ministries does not use activity-based costing to allocate costs as program, administrative, or fundraising. Ci used the charity’s T3010 filing with the CRA to get administrative and fundraising costs, which were reconciled with program costs reported in the audited financials. At the time of analysis, the T3010 filing was not publicly available for F2017. Ci allocated expenses based on the presentation of expenses in the audited financials. Ci included increases in deferred revenue, affecting revenues by $143k in F2017, $334k in F2016, and ($469k) in F2015. Amortization of deferred capital contributions was not included, affecting revenues by ($60k) in F2017, ($96k) in F2016, and ($231k) in F2015. Donated goods in kind were not included in Wesley Urban Ministries’ audited financial statements; Ci added these back in to donations and program costs, increasing revenues and expenses by $404k in F2017, $324k in F2016, and $374k in F2015. Ci did not include gain on sale of capital assets in revenues, affecting revenues by ($260k) in F2016. Ci removed scholarships from program costs and redirected the costs into grants. Ci redirected donations made through special events from community donations into special events fundraising.

Comments added by the Charity:

The information in this report was prepared by Charity Intelligence Canada and its independent analysts from publicly-available information. Charity Intelligence Canada and its analysts have made endeavours to ensure that the data in this report is accurate and complete but accept no liability.